Janet Rose, executive director of assessment and accountability for Charleston County schools: "The behavior can be linked to students' culture and home lives. . . . Children who grow up in a rough neighborhood likely are going to be rougher students. . . . Some teachers might not be culturally sensitive to students' behavior and they classify it as 'misbehavior."
Calling Elizabeth Kandrac. . . . Calling Elizabeth Kandrac. . . .
This attitude got CCSD into trouble and on the losing end of a lawsuit.
From the front lines:
Kevin Smith, assistant principal at Morningside Middle School in North Charleston: "Students need to be taught and shown what it looks like to behave in an appropriate way at school, and teachers need to be able to understand that not all students have the same behavior norms, he said."
How about having Janet Rose volunteer for McGinley's pet project to teach in one of CCSD's failing schools? What if it were a "voluntary" requirement at 75 Calhoun to give three years of service at one of those schools?
What? These administrators aren't qualified to do that? Then why are they making policy for the school district?
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Janet Rose would not last a day as a teacher in the majority of Charleston County schools. I wish she would take the challenge but don't bet the farm on it. She knows the truth about herself.
As for "culturally sensitive", look who's talking! Janet Rose has managed to reduce everything to a computer generated statistic. She's about as culturally insensitive as a person can get. And we pay her how much? And to do what? As long as we have people like Janet Rose on the staff at CCSD, the law firm that CCSD depends on to bail them out can be assured of many profitable years to come. Again we should ask, do we really want these people to be setting an example for our children.
Judging from the comments Ms. Paylor made to the jury, I would say that she does less "bailing out" and more adding fuel to the fire."
If you want better discipline try better state laws and then try getting them enforced.
Google: RCW Classroom Disruption
for a look at Washington state law.
California's law is similar.
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